Karen Hein, Youth as a Resource

Karen Hein, MD, is the immediate past president of the William T. Grant Foundation. She served as president from September 1998 to July 2003. As president, she shaped the foundation’s efforts to help create a society that values young people and enables them to reach their full potential. The foundation pursues this goal by investing in research and in people and projects that use evidencebased approaches. In addition, Dr. Hein was the executive officer of the Institute of Medicine (National Academy of
Sciences) from December 1995 to June 1998. Dr. Hein is clinical professor of pediatrics, epidemiology, and social medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. From 1993 to 1994, she worked on health care reform as a member of the Senate Finance Committee staff in Washington, DC.